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Re: Oil could hit Florida Panhandle by Wednesday

it was about barney fife whom the analysts at politico (msnbc's favorite source) kept comparing obama to

sorry

Your link was about his handling of the Sestak controversy and the Romanoff scandal.

In a possible repeat of the Joe Sestak episode in Pennsylvania, insurgent U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff of Colorado said deputy White House chief of staff Jim Messina reached out to him ó with a wince-inducing e-mail that is now public ó with three possible jobs in September 2009. Obama wanted to keep him out of a race against Sen. Michael Bennet, the White Houseís favored candidate.

Taken together, the Sestak and Romanoff cases suggest a White House team that is one part Dick Daley, one part Barney Fife.

See? This has nothing to do with the gulf oil spill, nor does it disprove Obama can do more than one thing at once. It's just a random post.

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Re: Oil could hit Florida Panhandle by Wednesday

"There can not be a single thing Obama can do to make the Oil Spill worse...."
On the radio, "Obama just passed a bill that will stop all further deepwater drilling for at least 6 months."
"I retract my last statement."

Re: Oil could hit Florida Panhandle by Wednesday

Originally Posted by MCS117

"There can not be a single thing Obama can do to make the Oil Spill worse...."
On the radio, "Obama just passed a bill that will stop all further deepwater drilling for at least 6 months."
"I retract my last statement."

That it didn't stop it altogether until we KNOW that these greedy bastards can actually fix a problem they started by first having all safety regulations wiped away is what makes it worse; and then by not even following those which were in place because the MMA was so (literally) in bed with BP in Louisiana (good ol' Southern politics).

No one's hands are clean in this. In many ways, we're all complicit.

You can blame the Obama administration; but anyone who acts like the oil industry is the victim in this is so clearly suckling their teat that they've no idea who their real masters are.

Re: Oil could hit Florida Panhandle by Wednesday

But now a series of recent missteps just keeps getting worse for Barack Obama’s political operation, already under fire from inside the party for losing its golden touch.

And bungling that fix is at odds with the Obama team’s image — built around the likes of Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, David Plouffe and Obama himself — as shrewd political operatives who know the game and always win it.

Well-connected Democrats are complaining that the Obama political operation since the 2008 campaign has been more clumsy than clever.

One senior House Democrat said it is baffling "how one group of people can be so good at campaigning and so bad at politics" — a phrasing nearly identical to that of a second veteran House Democrat who expressed the same sentiment.

Lawmakers say the White House seems capable of handling only one issue at a time — a stunning contrast to the candidate whose campaign promised that he could "walk and chew gum" at the same time in 2008.

Now this senior House Democrat said he's worried that the White House isn't able to handle multiple major challenges.

With storms threatening to spread the Gulf oil slick to Florida's beaches, the White House announced Thursday morning that President Obama will visit the region Friday.

We became a great nation not because we are a nation of cynics. We became a great nation because we are a nation of believers - Lindsey Graham
Iíve always believed that America is an idea, not defined by its people but by its ideals. - Lindsey Graham

Re: Oil could hit Florida Panhandle by Wednesday

The timing of the Romanoff news is especially unwelcome, since Obama is already under fire for a similar case involving Sestak and for his handling of the BP oil spill, which is drawing rebukes even from some fellow Democrats.

Re: Oil could hit Florida Panhandle by Wednesday

The people from SE Louisiana use Pensacola FL and Destin FL as our beach. It's beautiful there. We had a great turnout for a big protest rally downtown. So I guess another industry - tourism - down the tubes because of the spill.